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4/2/18 About us Nobody said it would be easy They said it would be worth it! OUR MISSION STATEMENT: The Road to Hope House, Inc. is a drug and alcohol free, residential facility currently located in Lorain County, Ohio. The goal


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“Nobody said it would be easy… They said it would be worth it!”

About us…

OUR MISSION STATEMENT:

The Road to Hope House, Inc. is a drug and alcohol free, residential facility currently located in Lorain County, Ohio. The goal of Road to Hope House is to provide an abstinence-based, Twelve Step environment within which the addicted person receives the support, guidance and faith necessary to become a productive member of our society, while living in accordance with a regimen of daily sobriety. Per Person

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The Purpose of The Road to Hope House

The Road to Hope House was created in response to the growing need for a structured residential facility with a supportive environment as alcoholism/chemical dependency continues to grow in epidemic proportions among our local population. We believe that alcoholism/chemical dependency is a progressive illness that is activated by a combination of genetic predisposition and environmental circumstances. Once activated, there is a high probability that alcoholism and chemical dependency will prove fatal without help. In even the least severe addictions, alcoholism and chemical dependency exacts enormous costs to those actively addicted, those co-dependent upon the addicted person and the general public, which is victimized by the dangers and social costs presented by the addict. We exist to provide a cost-effective housing solution to help isolate our residents from dysfunctional living environments and to create an atmosphere guided and espoused by the program of AlcoholicsAnonymous.

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Grass Roots Organization

  • In 2001, a vision for Road T
  • Hope began when Jeff and Kristina Kamms
  • pened their family home to sick and suffering alcoholics.
  • 2007- In order to keep their family home intact, and address the

increasing numbers of individuals in need, a home was rented on 8th Street in Elyria, Ohio.

  • 2010- A second house on 9th Street was acquired, and a structured

program developed from lessons learned during the adolescent phase.

  • 2011- A third house opened on West Avenue. A Board of Directors was

developed and the Road T

  • Hope became a 501c3 non-profit organization.
  • 2014- Purchase of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church on Irondale

Avenue increased capacity by fifty percent (50%).

  • 2015- The vision continued to grow with a women’s home in Oberlin, OH.

319 9th Street Elyria, Ohio

  • A Level II Ohio Recovery Housing certified facility.
  • Single Family Residence,(home-like setting)
  • Seven (7) resident capacity for longer-term residents

and those ready for increased independence or flexibility.

  • Monitored by a House Manager
  • Structured environment with support services

158 Irondale Street 162 Irondale Street

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The Main Campus at Irondale St.

158 and 162 Irondale

  • Level III Ohio Recovery Housing certified facilities.
  • Each facility has a fifteen (15) resident capacity
  • Each are monitored by a House Manager
  • Structured environment with onsite support services
  • Primary sober living residence for both newer and longer-term

residents

158 Irondale

  • Houses the Administrative Offices
  • Space for Events, Meetings, and Classrooms

2017 Men’s Demographics

Less than 1 month 8% 1 Month to 3 Months. 31% 4 Months to 6 Months. 22% 7 Months to 9 Months. 13% 10 Months to 1 Year. 6% 1 Year + 20%

LENGTH OF STAY 2017

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18 to 25 20% 26 to 40 45% 41 to 60 30%
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5%

AGE 2017

2017 Men’s Demographics - continued

No Schooling 14% HS Grad./GED 45% Some College 20% Trade/Tech,/Vocational 9% College Graduate 12%

EDUCATION 2017

Other 0%
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Under 1 Month 5% 1 Month to 3 Months 20% 4 Months to 6 Months. 37% 7 Months to 9 Months. 21% 10 Months to 1 Year. 14% 1 Year + 3%

LENGTH OF SOBRIETY

2017 Men’s Identified Needs

Health Insurance/Medicaid: 74 % Have Insurance 26 % Without Insurance Food Assist./Ohio Direction Card: 32 % Have FoodAssist. 68 % Without FoodAssist. 12 Step Sponsors: 72 % Have Sponsor 28 % Without Sponsor Home Group: 75% Have Home Group 25 % Without Home Group Driver's License: 53 % Have Drivers License 47 % Without Drivers License

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Own a Car: 50 % Own a Car Car Insurance: 56 % Have Insurance Past Due Debt / Bills: 55 % Paying Employment After Departure 72% Employed Resident Engagement Period (30 Days) 91% Engaged 50 % Without ACar 44 % Without Insurance 45 % Not paying 28% Unemployed 9% Not Engaged

2017 Men’s Identified Needs – continued as of 2/23/17

  • Level III Ohio Recovery Housing certified facility.
  • Eighteen (18) resident capacity
  • Single Family Residence (country home setting)
  • Monitored by two House Managers
  • Structured environment with onsite support

services

  • Primary sober living residence for both newer

and longer-term residents

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ETHNICITY

2017 Women’s Demographics

Hispanic or Latino 10% Native American 1% Black or African American 3% Asian / Pacific Islander 0% White… to disclose 1% Choose not Other 3%

ETHNICITY

Married 4% Seperated 7% Divorced 14% Single 51% Widowed 3% In a Relationship 21%

LIFE SITUATION

18 to 25 21% 26 to 40 54% 41 to 60 25%
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0%

AGE RANGES

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2017 Women’s Demographics - continued

Some Schooling, No Diploma 6% HS Grad./GED 35% Some College, No Degree 30% Trade/Tech,/Vocational 8% College Graduate 18% Other 3%

EDUCATION

Under 1 Month 17% 1 Month to 3 Months 20% 4 Months to 6 Months. 20% 7 Months to 9 Months. 12% 10 Months to 1 Year. 8% 1 Year + 23%

PERIOD of SOBRIETY

2017 Women’s Identified Needs

Health Insurance/Medicaid: 85 % Have Insurance 15 % Without Insurance Food Assist./Ohio Direction Card: 45 % Have FoodAssist. 55 % Without FoodAssist. 12 Step Sponsor: 74 % Have Sponsor 26 % Without Sponsor Home Group: 52 % Have Home Group 48 % Without Home Group Driver's License: 76 % Have Drivers License 24 % Without Drivers License

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2017 Women’s Identified Needs – continued

Past Due Debt / Bills: 47 % Have Past Due Debt / Bills 53 % Without Past Due Debt / Bills Own a Car: 34 % Own a Car 66 % Without ACar Car Insurance: 49 % Have Insurance 51 % Without Insurance Employment After Departure 40% Employed 60% Unemployed Resident Engagement Period (30 Days) 76% Engaged 24% Not Engaged

So what is it that we do?

“Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.” ~Norman B. Rice Onsite Support Services

  • Conduct an initial review to assess the resident’s needs
  • Develop a Recovery Plan with Goals and Objectives based on resident need
  • Provide support needed for resident to achieve Goals and Objectives
  • Daily Morning Prayer and Meditation
  • Peer Support Services (Certified)
  • Peer Support Groups
  • Structured Big Book and 12 Step Meetings
  • Education Groups (Professionals Volunteer)
  • Random Drug Screening

So what else is it that we do?

Community Outreach

  • Local Churches
  • Food Pantries
  • Nursing Homes
  • Homeless
  • Elderly

Workforce Development

  • Construction (Hard Hats)
  • Landscaping
  • Manufacturing

Employment Assistance

  • Resume Writing
  • Felon Friendly Employers

Career Development

  • Education
  • Training
  • Certification

Banking/Budgeting Life Skills

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” ~John Wooden

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Collaborations and Linkages

  • Braking Point Recovery Center
  • C.A.T

.S.

  • Catholic Charities
  • First Step Recovery
  • Glenbeigh Treatment Center
  • Firelands Counseling and Recovery Services

Treatment Providers

  • Matt Talbott
  • St. Vincent’s Charity Hospital
  • Salvation Army
  • Stella Maris
  • Windsor-Laurelwood
  • LCADA Way

Collaborations and Linkages

  • Adult Parole Authority
  • CBCF community based

correctional facilities

  • Cuyahoga County
  • Grafton Prison
  • Lorain County
  • Lorain County Recovery Court
  • Mahoning County
  • Marysville Prison
  • Trumbull County
  • Trumbull County Recovery Court
  • Amherst Church of the Nazarene
  • Beyond The Walls
  • Community Services
  • Express Employment Professionals
  • Huntington Bank / First Merit
  • Gathering Hope House
  • Minute Men Staffing Services
  • Try Ministries

Criminal Justice System Other

What do we wish to accomplish?

“It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”

— Winston Churchill A b s tinence Reduction in Criminal Justice Involvement Social Connectedness Increase in employment/education Stability in Housing Reduction in Negative Health/Behavior/ and Social

Consequences

INSTILL HOPE ;)

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How successful are we overall? 2016 at a Glance Men & Women

ABSTINENCE Measured (Negative Drug Screens)

  • f the 191 Total Residence in 2016 à

61 % Maintained Abstinence Overall (117 Negative) (14 % were removed from residence during first 30 days of ENGAGEMENT due to Positive Urinalysis) STABILITY IN HOUSING à 96 % Entered Stable Living Environment Following Discontinuation of Residency (Apartment, Relatives House, Hospital, etc.). 4 % Returned to Homelessness INCREASE IN EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATIONà 93% of the unemployed residents were employed within 60 days of entering Road to Hope. 3 % Received GED & 6 % Enrolled in Education beyond GED / Diploma

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SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS 99 % Connected Overall After 30 Days of Engagement Period (Meeting Attendance; Life Skills, RecoveryActivities) REDUCTION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE INVOLVEMENT (Fees/Fines/Requirements) à 87 % reduction in Criminal Justice Activity Regarding Residents with CJST Involvement

OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • 2015 Associate Member o

f OHIO RECOVERY HOUSING

2016 Approved provider of the

Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services

LEADERSHIP OHIO AWARD

  • ELECTED MEMBER OF RECOVERY C

O U R T

  • PEER SUPPORT SPECIALISTS
  • RECOVERY HOUSING INITIATIVE
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How are we operating?

  • Donations
  • Fundraising
  • Rent
  • ODMHAS FY2015 start-up grant for the Margeau House
  • Seeking additional support through Grants, Foundations,

and Endowments

  • Access to Recovery Housing Grants (as of September 2016)

“Sharing the Journey is the goal, direction, and motto of the Road to Hope”

  • Executive Director

, Jeff Kamms Let’s share the journey together…

“The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us.”

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Arise, Shine!

RECOVERY | HOPE | FAITH | RESTORATION | COMMUNITY www.ARCRecoveryServices.com

Recovery Housing

  • 6 to 18 Months
  • Men’s &

Women’s Facilities

  • Faith-Based

Program

  • ORH Certified
  • Engaging

Community

  • Whole Person

Approach

$29,000

“Average net benefit

  • f residency in a

peer run recovery home, compared to returning to original home.”

Lo Sasso, A. T., Byro, E., Jason, L. A., Ferrari, J. R., & Olson, B. (2012). Benefits and costs associated with mutual-help community-based recovery homes: The Oxford House model. Evaluation and Program Planning, 35(1), 47-53.
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years 25

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PEER SUPPORT

State Certified Peers Strength Based Program Models Recovery Lifestyle Builds Recovery Network

PEER SUPPORT Gives Freedom From

Substance Abuse Hospitalization Rates Depression / Anxiety Psychotic Symptoms

Davidson, L., Bellamy, C., Guy, K., & Miller, R. (2012). Peer support among persons with severe mental illnesses: a review of evidence and experience. World Psychiatry, 11 (2), 123-128.
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HOLISTIC APPROACH

SPIRITUAL | MENTAL | EMOTIONAL | PHYSICAL

SPIRITUAL COUNSELING

Ordained & Licensed Ministers Lived Experience with SUD Long Term Recovery Engages Faith as a Recovery Support “Patients with high ratings of spiritual or religious support were abstinent from illicit drugs significantly longer during the first six months”

  • S. Kelly Avants, Lara A. Warburton & Arthur Margolin (2011) Spiritual and Religious Support in Recovery from Addiction Among HIV-Positive Injection
Drug Users, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 33:1, 39-45, DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2001.10400467
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Ohio Recovery Housing

Danielle Gray danielle@ohiorecoveryhousing.org

Objectives

What we are going to talk about:

  • 1. What do I mean why I say Recovery

Housing?

  • 2. Introduction to Ohio Recovery Housing
  • 3. ORH Certification Process
  • 4. ORH Learning Community

Introduction

What are all the types of housing? “Recovery Housing” vs Sober House Oxford Houses Halfway house ¾ House

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"Recovery housing" means housing for individuals recovering from alcoholism or drug addiction that provides an alcohol and drug-free living environment, peer support, assistance with obtaining alcohol and drug addiction services, and other alcoholism and drug addiction recovery assistance.

  • Ohio Revised Code, Chapter 340.01

Recovery housing is a required element in local continuum of care. State law requires protocol for administrative oversight, quality standards, policies and procedures including house rules. General revenue funds are allocated for capital & operating costs

Recovery Residences: Levels of Support

Housing Social Model

Formal Life Skill Development

Clinical

I II III IV +

Who is Ohio Recovery Housing?

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Who we are

  • As the NARR affiliate in Ohio we create and
maintain standards of excellence for recovery housing.

Certification Process

  • Connection to resources
  • Brief Advice on how to operate quality housing
  • Produce Reports and guides

Develop Recovery Housing Resources

  • Work to ensure stakeholders and decision
makers know what quality recovery housing looks like
  • Advocate for recovery housing as a critical piece
  • f the continuum of care for people in recovery

Educate and Inform on Recovery Housing Ohio Recovery Housing is alliance of

  • rganizations and individuals operating

quality recovery housing in Ohio. What we offer to anyone

  • Housing Locator

Help finding Housing

  • Connection to resources
  • Brief Advice on how to operate quality housing
  • Answer questions

Advice for

  • perators
  • Create tools and resources to raise awareness about recovery housing
  • Increase understanding of recovery housing among decision makers,

stakeholders and neighbors

Awareness of Recovery Housing

What we offer to applicants

  • Assessment of Policies and

Procedures

  • On-site Review

Assessment and Quality Improvement

  • Help meeting standards
  • Advice and information
  • Guidance from ORH Advisory Board

Individualized Technical Assistance

  • Discount at conference
  • Learning opportunities

Learning Opportunities

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What we offer to associates Associates are those that are certified to meet the quality standards They pay fees They complete a review process every other year

  • Placement on our housing locator
  • Referrals
  • Some counties require this for $

Advertise that you are certified

  • On-going TA and support
  • Opportunities to network
  • Connection to national network

Networking

  • ORH has a survey tool that Associates may use
  • Comes with an individualized dashboard to track
  • utcomes
  • Basic support on how to use the outcomes tool

Outcomes Tool

What we offer to counties

  • Information on best practices in Recovery Housing
  • Work with local operators to increase understanding of quality standards
  • Guidance on recovery housing planning and implementation

No Cost General Technical Assistance

  • Offered on a Contract basis
  • Specific assistance on recovery housing planning as a part of the

continuum of care

Individualized Technical Assistance

  • Free data reports on ORH associate housing in the county
  • Ability to create an individualized data collection
  • Ability to create an individualized outcomes collection tool

Outcomes Tool and Data

What are the quality standards?

Administrative Operational

Operate with Integrity Uphold Resident Rights Recovery Oriented Peer Staffed/ Governed

Recovery Support

Promote Health Provide a Home Inspire Purpose Cultivate Community

Property and Architecture

Promote Recovery Promote Health and Safety

Good Neighbor

Compatible with neighborhood Responsive to neighbors Courtesy Rules

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Certification Process

Application Assurances Review of Policies and Procedures Recovery Environment Review Dwelling Review ORH Board Decision Why offer a learning community

The purpose of this learning community is to increase the number of organizations that are ORH certified by reducing barriers to certification. Benefits are 1. Offer Scholarships 2. Provide training and advice 3. Create a community of operators to learn from each other

Learning Community

Learning Community Training Opportunities Webinars March 6 2018, 10AM – 12PM Excelling in Administration NARR Standards on Policies and Procedures May 2018 Building Community Neighbor Relations Developing Alumni Programs Connecting to wider Recovery Community In person workshops April 2, 2018 – 1pm – 4pm Peer Leadership and Staffing Jason Howell – RecoveryPeople Columbus, OH August, 2018 Outcomes Data, Quality Improvement

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ORH Associates ORH Has 59 Associates that meet quality standards We have another 27 organizations that are actively engaged in the process We have about 40 organizations in our learning community

Danielle Gray

Danielle@ohiorecoveryhousing.org 614-228-0747 www.OhioRecoveryHousing.org